Categories and range effects in human spatial memory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Ken ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^b   Hoan, Andros ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Category; Category adjustment model; Human; Range effect; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855196322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00231     Document Type: Article

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